Shuja Nawaz is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. He is the author of “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within” (Oxford) and is currently completing a book on US-Pakistan relations and the crises inside Pakistan from 2008 to the present.     https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/contributor/shuja-nawaz/rss en Transitional Justice & Negotiations Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:10:00 +0000 Shuja Nawaz https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/community/2018/07/26/pakistan-polls-threaten-to-deepen-fractures-in-an-already-divided-state https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/community/2018/07/26/pakistan-polls-threaten-to-deepen-fractures-in-an-already-divided-state As polls open in Pakistan, there are concerns that the election will create room for unrest between rival political forces in the divided country, writes Pakistan expert Shuja Nawaz.